SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne Counties**

Asthma

During the past 12 months, besides emergency room visits, how many times did you see a doctor, nurse or other health professional for urgent treatment of worsening asthma symptoms?*

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Once Twice Three or more times None
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,186 154 13.8 11.0-17.3 95 9.1 6.8-11.9 145 11.5 9.3-14.0 792 65.6 61.6-69.4
-Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne 36 5 6.0 2.1-15.6 2 2.2 0.5- 8.8 9 29.4 14.6-50.4 20 62.4 42.0-79.2
GENDER
Male 5 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 5 100 . - .
Female 31 5 8.1 3.0-20.3 2 3.0 0.7-11.6 9 39.9 21.8-61.3 15 49.0 29.7-68.6
RACE
White 22 3 4.4 1.3-13.6 1 1.8 0.2-12.4 5 28.2 11.4-54.5 13 65.6 41.0-83.9
Other 14 2 8.6 1.6-34.5 1 2.8 0.3-19.5 4 31.4 9.2-67.2 7 57.3 22.7-86.0
AGE
18-44 15 2 3.1 0.7-13.0 0 0.0 . - . 5 30.7 10.8-61.8 8 66.2 35.6-87.4
45+ 21 3 9.3 2.6-28.0 2 4.7 1.1-17.9 4 27.9 10.2-56.8 12 58.1 33.3-79.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 20 2 3.2 0.7-13.1 2 3.7 0.8-15.0 5 32.3 12.3-61.9 11 60.8 32.3-83.5
Some College + 16 3 10.2 2.7-31.2 0 0.0 . - . 4 25.1 8.7-54.1 9 64.7 37.9-84.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 28 4 7.6 2.5-20.9 2 3.2 0.8-12.6 9 43.1 23.7-65.0 13 46.0 26.4-67.0
$50,000+ 4 1 10.4 1.2-53.6 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 3 89.6 46.4-98.8

Back to Asthma.

*These data apply only to those with current asthma

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16AUG06.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook